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Sentence Examples
| Fortunately for Laurie, I'm here to set his mind at rest, for I happen to know that his projections are fundamentally flawed. |
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| He finds that people assume the likes of Thompson, Fry and Laurie were part of his circle. |
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| While Farmer Laurie saves the world from pesticides, Mega-Mart provides more than seventy- five jobs in this town. |
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| Laurie was an employee of Scott Paper Company, Sheet Harbour for many years, working on the grinders. |
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| Laurie was particularly effective at capturing Bertie's distinctive blend of airy nonchalance and refined gormlessness. |
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| With a nod of his head as he inhaled the cigarette smoke, Laurie sat down rather gingerly. |
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| By the waning light inside the teepee, Laurie and Gil knew that night was approaching. |
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| I can only wholeheartedly endorse the comments made by Vicky Landell Mills and Laurie Wilson. |
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| Laurie removed a feather bed from the guest bedroom and insisted that Brian take it to camp. |
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| The dark bulk of Vancouver Island lay on the port side of the steam packet, Laurie. |
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| Running her hands over the stubble of beard on his face, Laurie felt her eyes brimming. |
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| With Laurie serving as bolsterer, buffer, secretary and manager, he began again the long, tortuous climb toward his rightful place in jazz. |
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| Jerzy Grotowsky is cited among her influences, and Laurie Anderson is the subject of a lengthy and insightful page of typing. |
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| He stared at Laurie over his bifocals, his balding head gleaming in the afternoon sun coming through the bay window at the end of the foyer. |
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| Laurie kept the smile on her face, writing back in her signature handwriting where she dotted her i's with hearts. |
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| Just to tease the boss, the drovers made a big to-do about who would sit next to Laurie but, in the end, Gil ended up at her side. |
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| Clarendon and Laurie Sue Kenopensky make it through eight months and then kapow, there goes my baby, somebody help me pick up the pieces. |
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| Pete, using a great amount of discretion, slowed down to a walk and let Gil meet Laurie alone. |
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| Major Laurie Sutcliffe, of the Territorial Army, conducted the service at the war memorial in front of hundreds of people. |
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| The pride of Laurie Callender's motorcycle collection is that first little Mountain Goat. |
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| Laurie Pappajohn, a local harpist, and her group played traditional music of the mystics using medieval Celtic instruments. |
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| Laurie undergoes a series of trials, trying to find some backbone against his phobias, while singing TV jingles. |
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| Mystie followed, jouncing her bed twice before she got up and ran after Laurie. |
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| Laurie put the small box down on a flat rock and teasingly batted Gil's hand away as he knelt down and tried to reach inside for a sandwich. |
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| Laurie turns back to the fireplace, looking into the small mirror hanging above the mantelpiece. |
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| The girls are relieved when Laurie announces that he has already telegraphed their mother and that she will be there soon. |
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| Thus, for an adoring readership did Laurie Lee foster the myth we demanded. |
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| It was a beautiful day and it was great to watch Johan and Laurie ease the old girl through the South African airways. |
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| And so it was that Laurie ended up in a saloon, drinking beer with the rest of the guys. |
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| Likewise, Laurie Brereton, Latham's numbers man, occasionally walked the floor to have a yak to colleagues. |
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| On the liberal side, I'd add Laurie, who's a loudmouth in the best sense of the word. |
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| Laurie seems like a good guy, but his bad boy needs a little help. |
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| Laurie Metcalf gave a heart-rending portrayal of a businesswoman suffering from early dementia in The Other Place. |
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| He toured with the briefly reformed Velvet Underground and found domestic happiness with Laurie Anderson. |
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| Coping with pain is not new to Stupak or Laurie, a former mayor of their hometown of Menominee. |
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| Pretty much any question you might have about the inn or the town has been anticipated and unimposingly answered by Laurie already, if you just look around the inn a little. |
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| The Unfortunates by Laurie Graham was my unputdownable book of the year. |
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| Jim Broadbent is the bellowing RHPS training sergeant and Hugh Laurie the preening wing commander Gutsy, who likes his bug juice shaken not stirred. |
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| Laurie took a deep breath and then nudged her horse into a canter. |
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| Rose could hear Laurie calling her, but she didn't turn back. |
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| Laurie pinpoints a location and directs Shawn to a scenic overlook. |
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| Laurie climbed out of the chuck wagon and climbed into the supply wagon. |
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| Throughout the day, Laurie confabs with entertainment bigwigs, at times working outside, via cell phone, so she can deadhead her roses while juggling a long list of projects. |
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| Laurie Sansom's production hits its emotional straps, and Jones delivers moving scene after scene of rising, fractious, heart-rending drama and flinty, defiant humour. |
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| Jack's portly wife, Bertha, invited Laurie to supper, and Laurie was delighted to hear stories that Jack told of being trail boss on his own cattle drives. |
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| Laurie was highly dedicated, not personally ambitious or power hungry. |
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| Laurie also admitted that he did hold regrets for the way that some pieces of his reports and columns had eventuated, but wouldn't give any specific examples. |
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| He was married to his fourth wife, Laurie, from January 1978 until his death. |
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| During his 2006 performance in the Hugh Laurie episode, Beck was accompanied by the puppets that had been used onstage during his world tour. |
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| She was predeceased by a daughter, Laurie Hietala and a brother and sister, David Leahy and Louise Leahy. |
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| When I began showing up at the initial Silverback gatherings in the early 2000s, Laurie and I developed a special friendship,'' Perry recalled. |
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| When Laurie and I go to the match we spend 12 hours talking non-stop about A-sides, B-sides, 50s music, 50s films. |
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| Martha Schwartz, Laurie Olin, Sasaki, Dan Kiley, Susan Child, and George Hargreaves are included. |
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| The team from the Westborough Little League and Softball, represented by Rob Nagi, Laurie Nagi and Jon McGrath. |
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| Laurie was a great jiver and acrobat and he used to entertain us with his jiving and acrobatics skills. |
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| So early one morning, when the weather seemed set fair, Rochelle told Laurie about the food store. |
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| Of course, thanks to Laurie Anderson, we know this is not true. |
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| The story centres on Sam, a TV commissioning editor played by Hugh Laurie, and his wife Lucy, who is played by Joely Richardson. |
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| The Richard Hoggart Building, Deptford Town Hall and the Laurie Grove Baths all retain Grade II listed building status. |
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| It's this kind of deconstructionist humour which has garnered comparisons with Fry and Laurie and Monty Python. |
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| On 15 May 2011 he appeared alongside Laurie in the UK ITV series Perspectives, singing music from the album in New Orleans. |
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| Laurie tells him to stop being such a little girl and do something bad for once. |
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| Meanwhile, Laurie Anderson's The Handphone Table will allow visitors to conduct sound through their bones. |
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| Adele Laurie Blue Adkins was born on 5 May 1988 in Tottenham, London, to an English mother, Penny Adkins, and a Welsh father, Marc Evans. |
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| Blind Freddy could have seen that Danny was being beaten pointless, but Laurie refused to shift him until the last quarter. |
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| Laurie Everts, a nurse at McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center, has been selected to receive the hospital's Patient Choice Award. |
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| In May 2011, Jones appeared as guest vocalist on the debut album Let Them Talk by Hugh Laurie. |
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| The Hollywood hunk appears to have said au revoir to Aniston and bonjour to Laurie Cholewa. |
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| Drama House HUGH Laurie recently started a new, slightly unlikely career as a grizzled bluesman. |
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| Dumb and Dumber To Comedy, starring Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Rob Riggle, Laurie Holden, Rachel Melvin, Steve Tom and Don Lake. |
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| Arthur Beetson, Laurie Daley and Gorden Tallis captained Australia in Rugby League and the annual NSW Koori Knockout and Murri Rugby League Carnival. |
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| When Areola, ridden by Laurie Johnson, won it for him at Phoenix Park in 1970 it was at a time when fillies were dominating the race with the colts rarely getting a look in. |
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| In 1931, the first powered drum was created by Laurie Jarelainen. |
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| Other apprentices included Laurie Cribb, Donald Potter and Walter Ritchie. |
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| The university also acquired a number of historic buildings in the surrounding area, including the splendid former Deptford Town Hall and Laurie Grove Baths buildings. |
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| It used 100 individual cassette tapes recorded with a range of sounds-mix tapes, ocean surf, Laurie Anderson, Beethoven, The Beatles and her high school punk band. |
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| After several experiences of this dulled vision Laurie, a former patternmaker who went on to run his own woodworking firm, decided he needed to take expert advice. |
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| Eventually, the team identified capric acid, undecanoic acid and laurie acid as active compounds. |
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| Spokesmodel HUGH LAURIE is a brilliant talent, but has a face like a depressed Bassett hound, so how he came to be the new face of cosmetics firm L'Oreal is a mystery. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| The phylogenetic arrangement and nomenclature in the text beyond are mainly that of Laurie and Hill. |
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| Heaven grant my Laurie be not too honest, too unsuspicious for his own safety! |
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| Laurie then was not in the most favorable of moods to receive the dicta of the Vicar. |
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| The renaissance classics may be studied in the works of Woodward and Laurie. |
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| Then, too, Laurie wanted all the extra time he could get to work on his new opera. |
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| And Laurie looked at her with an expression which made her answer in a whisper. |
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| Laurie sold his busts, made allumettes of his opera, and went back to Paris, hoping somebody would arrive before long. |
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| When they got into the hall, Jo asked Laurie if she had said something amiss. |
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| Laurie went on the box so Meg could keep her foot up, and the girls talked over their party in freedom. |
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| The other lion was the fact that they were poor and Laurie rich, for this made them shy of accepting favors which they could not return. |
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| For information regarding the proposal, contact Laurie Wainwright of the Office of the Purchasing Agent at 274-4436 or loretta. |
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| Amy was ordered off at once, and provided with something to ward off danger, she departed in great state, with Jo and Laurie as escort. |
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| Laurie came every day, and wheedled Aunt March till Amy was allowed to go out with him, when they walked and rode and had capital times. |
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| Booke, Meg, and Ned declined, but Fred, Sallie, Jo, and Laurie piled and drew, and the lot fell to Laurie. |
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| Laurie did not see, for he was carefully skating along the shore, sounding the ice, for a warm spell had preceded the cold snap. |
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| Robert Laurie was a skilled mezzotint engraver and is known to have worked with Robert Sayer on numerous projects. |
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| Laurie was signing and sealing as he spoke, and did not look up till a great tear dropped on the paper. |
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| Dearly loved Brother of Pam and Jenny and Uncle to Laurie, Patrick and Sophi. |
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| Laurie put his hat and stick down carefully, and crossed his legs. |
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| Laurie took Amy to drive, which was a deed of charity, for the sour cream seemed to have had a bad effect upon her temper. |
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| Laurie comes naturally by his love of music, for he is like his mother, and I dare say his grandfather fears that he may want to be a musician. |
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| Laurie screwed up his face and obeyed with a gingerly peck at each little cheek that produced another laugh, and made the babies squeal. |
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| Laurie Morse had much swift understanding of the human heart. |
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| Laurie went from room to room with Aunt Laura, looking at everything. |
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| Laurie drew his hand across his eyes, but could not speak till he had subdued the choky feeling in his throat and steadied his lips. |
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| A flank movement produced an unconditional surrender, however, for Laurie knew where to have him. |
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| Laurie dashed downstairs for water, while Meg and Hannah supported her, and Jo read aloud, in a frightened voice. |
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| Laurie ran to meet and present them to his friends in the most cordial manner. |
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| Laurie is as full of didoes as usual, and turns the house upside down frequent, but he heartens the girls, so I let em hev full swing. |
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| Before she came back, Laurie walked into the parlor to find Amy sobbing, with her head in the sofa cushions. |
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| Laurie burst out with a hearty boy's laugh, which made several passers-by smile in spite of themselves. |
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| Did Jerry tell you that Laurie Armitage has finished his operetta? |
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| Jo disgraced herself by nearly fainting away, and had to be doctored by Laurie in the china closet. |
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| My first name is theodore, but I don't like it, for the fellows called me Dora, so I made the say Laurie instead. |
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| If she goes I shan't, and if I don't, Laurie won't like it, and it will be very rude, after he invited only us, to go and drag in Amy. |
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| And with these words, uttered in the tone she liked, Laurie left her, after a handshake almost painful in its heartiness. |
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| The atmosphere of the whole house being summerlike, Laurie led the way from room to room, letting Jo stop to examine whatever struck her fancy. |
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| They began to get anxious, and Laurie went off to find her, for no one knew what freak Jo might take into her head. |
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| Active as he was, Laurie was not the first to leap at the hawk-eyed one. |
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| Laurie was equally impracticable, and would have had bonfires, skyrockets, and triumphal arches, if he had had his own way. |
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| And Laurie got up with a reckless laugh that grated on his grandfather's ear. |
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| Laurie leisurely departed to recover the lost property, and Jo bundled up her braids, hoping no one would pass by till she was tidy again. |
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| Her amazed look and quick answer caused Laurie to repair his error as fast as possible. |
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| I wash my hands of the dinner party, and since you have asked Laurie on your own responsibility, you may just take care of him. |
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| She meant to warn him that Laurie would not bear much restraint, and hoped he would be more forebearing with the lad. |
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| Laurie dashed into a livelier strain, played stormily for several minutes, and would have got through bravely, if in a momentary lull Mrs. |
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| And Laurie gave them a sample of its powers that made them cover up their ears. |
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| So Laurie played and Jo listened, with her nose luxuriously buried in heliotrope and tea roses. |
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| Having with difficulty restrained an explosion of merriment, lest it should offend her majesty, Laurie tapped and was graciously received. |
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| Laurie opened the window, and croaked out as hoarsely as a raven. |
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| So Laurie did his best, and sang delightfully, being in a particularly lively humor, for to the Marches he seldom showed the moody side of his character. |
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| When Laurie came home, dead tired but quite composed, his grandfather met him as if he knew nothing, and kept up the delusion very successfully for an hour or two. |
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| Laurie spoke very fast, and turned red and excited all in a minute, for he had kept his plot a secret, for fear of disappointing the girls or harming Beth. |
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| He seldom spoke to Laurie, but he looked at him often, and a shadow would pass across his face, as if regretting his own lost youth, as he watched the young man in his prime. |
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| Laurie lay on the rug, pretending to rest, but staring into the fire with the thoughtful look which made his black eyes beautifully soft and clear. |
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| You can't sit with us, for our seats are reserved, and you mustn't sit alone, so Laurie will give you his place, and that will spoil our pleasure. |
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| With the first burst of the band, Amy's color rose, her eyes began to sparkle, and her feet to tap the floor impatiently, for she danced well and wanted Laurie to know it. |
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| She didn't want Laurie to think her a heartless, worldly creature. |
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| She told her story, expecting to be consoled, but Laurie only put his hands in his pockets and walked about the room, whistling softly, as he knit his brows in deep thought. |
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| To complete her confusion, she saw Belle nudge Annie, and both glance from her to Laurie, who, she was happy to see, looked unusually boyish and shy. |
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| It so happened that Beth's funny loan was just the thing, for in laughing over the kits, Laurie forgot his bashfulness, and grew sociable at once. |
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| When they were called in, Laurie was standing by their mother with such a penitent face that Jo forgave him on the spot, but did not think it wise to betray the fact. |
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| No one said anything, till Laurie, who insisted on serving the bride, appeared before her, with a loaded salver in his hand and a puzzled expression on his face. |
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| Laurie lay luxuriously swinging to and fro in his hammock one warm September afternoon, wondering what his neighbors were about, but too lazy to go and find out. |
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| Gentle, kindly, and superbly performed, Laurie Berkner Lullabies is an unparalleled treasure for parents to share with little ones at bedtime, highly recommended. |
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| Laurie went off two stairs at a time, and Jo laid her wearied head down on Beth's little brown hood, which no one had thought of moving from the table where she left it. |
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| But his polite regrets didn't impose upon her, and when she galloped away with the Count, she saw Laurie sit down by her aunt with an actual expression of relief. |
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| Jo, with perfect faith in her own powers and a friendly desire to make up the quarrel, immediately put a note in the office, inviting Laurie to dinner. |
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| Laurie walked in silence a few minutes, and Jo watched him, wishing she had held her tongue, for his eyes looked angry, though his lips smiled as if at her warnings. |
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| She never saw Laurie mount guard in the hall to warn the servants away. |
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| And Laurie sat down with a submissive expression delightful to behold. |
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| Laurie smiled but didn't seem shocked, and answered with a shrug. |
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| But there came a time when Laurie ceased to worship at many shrines, hinted darkly at one all-absorbing passion, and indulged occasionally in Byronic fits of gloom. |
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| Laurie graduates then, and you'd enjoy commencement as something new. |
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| The hall was empty, and they had a grand polka, for Laurie danced well, and taught her the German step, which delighted Jo, being full of swing and spring. |
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